DeVries v. Starr’s Empirical Analysis
393 F.2d 9 · 1968
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently December 2000
17 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Story Parchment Co. v. Paterson Parchment Paper Co. · Eastman Kodak Co of New York v. Southern Photo Materials Co · Sheldon v. Metro-Goldwyn Pictures Corp. · Louis Weber v. United States · Palmer v. Connecticut Railway & Lighting Co.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * [I]t appears to be recognized that proof of a plaintiff’s actual experience in the way of volume of business, and espe-daily in the way of net profits, during a reasonable interval immediately preceding the impact of an actionable wrong of the sort here involved, is competent and instructive evidence, and is entitled to consideration, upon the subject of damages consequent upon such wrong. It provides a basis whereon, whether partially or exclusively, the trier of the facts may estimate and find such damages, for it points to the value of the enterprise against which a wrong is alleged.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]n a case such as this, where the wrong is of such a nature as to preclude exact ascertainment of the amount of damages, plaintiff may recover upon a showing of the extent of the damages as a matter of just and reasonable inference, although the result may be only an approximation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“goes to the evaluation and probative significance of the computation, not to the entitlement to consideration, of such loss of profits, as was reasonably established.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.